Press releases

Press releases

New report, ‘Student Mental Health: The Role and Experience of Academics’, published by Student Minds on the 29th of January 2018, finds that support for student mental health is being provided by untrained staff who are uncertain of their boundaries, creating risk for the student, academic and institution.

New research report calls for better support for graduates in the workplace

Moving into the workplace, can be a significant challenge for a young person’s mental health. Over the last few months thousands of young people will have started new graduatejobs, many of whom feel unprepared during this major transition.

On this World Mental Health Day, 10th of October 2017, Student Minds, published the first ever report to uncover the wellbeing of young graduates making the transition from university into the workforce.

We are delighted to announce that Student Minds has beaten more than 400 organisations from all over the UK to be one of the 10 winners of the 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards, a national award that recognises excellence in charities improving health and wellbeing in their communities.

New model for university accommodation with launch of guide to supporting student mental health

Between 2016-17 Student Minds, UPP and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have been working on 'Student Living', a cross-organisational project funded thanks to the UPP Foundation to support student mental health. Recognising that it can often be accommodation staff that pick up on students in distress or experiencing mental health difficulties. Our learning from this project and recommendations for the wider university and accommodation sectors can be found in our public guidance pack available on our website.​

Launched in February 2016, this is a campaign aiming to change students’ opinions of depression and support students who are experiencing low mood while they’re at university.

The campaign encourages students to share their Ripple Tips with other students: the small things they do to support their own mental health and cope with depression. I have attached the press pack for the campaign to this email.

University Mental Health Day events took place at over 100 universities on Thursday 2nd of March 2017. The day brought together all involved in university, both students and staff, to transform the state of student mental health. This national initiative reaches a wide audience, and opens up conversations about student mental health.

The Looking After a Mate study in 2016 set out to understand the support for mental health difficulties that student provide to each other. The study looked into the challenges students face in providing support, their needs as supporters, the support they receive and the impact this responsibility has on their lives. The study involved 79 university students who were supporting friends experiencing mental health difficulties.

The report covers details about the supporters, the friends they are supporting, the supporters well-being, their needs, their experience of providing support and their approach to providing support.